[wplug] hosts on sunOS 5.8

[Poyner, Brandon]

That's making a lot of assumptions, like the sysadmin is not buried
under other obligations, that the user is allowed to take the machine to
single user mode to take over root, or that the system isn't so critical
that it can be taken down at any time you feel like it.  I would assume
that Mike has already thought through those scenarios and was looking
for an alternate solution.  I don't think the suggestions made were that
bad and don't require pestering the sysadmin or taking the machine down.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org 
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf 
> Of Devin Lee Drew
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:40 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: RE: [wplug] hosts on sunOS 5.8
> 
> 
> --- Edward Walter <ewalter at walterama.com> wrote:
> 
> > You could try running your application in a chroot jail
> > and create a custom /etc/hosts within the jail.
> > 
> > -Ed
> 
> 
> Come on gang, this medicine is worse than the illness. 
> 
> 1) Ask root to edit the file for you.
> 
> or 
> 
> 2) Boot to single user mode and do it yourself. 
> 
> http://www.unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/bootcdrom.html
> 
> 
> Devin
> 
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